My first photographs were with a Kodak Brownie camera borrowed from my grandmother when I was 10 years old. My father, also a photography buff, introduced me to black and white developing and darkroom processes around the same time.
Some 30 years later, my interest in photography remains very strong. The journey through photography has taken me to many places, and many formats, from the Stereo Realist 3-D camera to large format view cameras.
Studio shooting allows complete creative control. My favorite lighting involves daylight and studio strobes in combination, resulting in a rich other worldly quality to the images. I thoroughly enjoy bringing a shared vision and creative goal to a successful completion. My work highlights the creativity of those with whom I collaborate, from makeup artists and clothing designers to up and coming and industry established models.
Stylistically I prefer the look and feel of photographs taken in previous decades. The result is a contemporary vision with a strong sense of past influences. Many do not share this aestetic, and some dismiss it as nostalgic or kitsch. I prefer the definitions of beauty and grace that no longer are in vogue over the explicit for explicit sake world of today, even when this means that my work is less well known. I've been published many times and have not had to compromise my vision to achieve that.
I count as favorite photographers the likes of Jeanloup Sieff, Peter Gowland, Alfred Cheney Johnston, Marco Glaviano, and Jeff Dunas.